"The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? At least in Sweden or Scandinavia, you don't have to search further back in time than maybe three generations to find another way to relate to death. People then had a different, closer relationship with death; at least it was like that in the countryside."

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Source : "'Something that's not yourself.' — An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#People Quotes #Different Quotes #Three Quotes

“Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.”

Source : Mercedes Lackey (2003). “Exile's Honor”, p.88, Penguin
“How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough.”

Source : Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett
“I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.”
“The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...”
“When liberals clamor for 'diversity,' they don't necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement.”
“Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.”
“It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.”

Source : Letter to Mrs Drew, 19 May 1891, in Some Hawarden Letters (1917) ch. 7

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